Professional Activities
Conference Participation (Presentations, Discussions
and Session Chairs)
2008
Kenneth Ahern, Presentation at AFA annual meetings
Sreedhar Bharath,
Presentations at AFA annual meetings (2 papers)
Amy Dittmar, Presentation
at AFA annual meetings
Robert Dittmar, Discussant
at AFA annual meetings
Haitao Li, Presentation at
Econometric Society North American Winter Meeting
Paolo Pasquariello, Presentation at AFA annual
meetings; presentation at AEA annual meetings
Kathy Yuan, Presentation and
discussion at AFA annual meetings
Lu Zhang, Discussion at
AFA annual meetings
2007
Jonathan Cohn, Presentation at
WFA annual meetings
Sreedhar Bharath,
Presentation at EFA annual meetings
Amy Dittmar, Presentation at
WFA annual meeting; presentation at EFA annual meetings
Robert Dittmar, Presentation at AFA annual meetings;
presentation and session chair, WFA annual meetings
Ryan Israelson (PhD Student), Presentation and discussant
at AREUEA annual meetings
Haitao Li, Presentation at
the Conference on Likelihood Method in Finance, Princeton University;
Presentation at WFA annual meetings
Adair Morse (PhD student), Presentation at AFA annual
meetings
Paige Ouimet (PhD student), Presentation at
EFA annual
meetings
Francisco Palomino, Presentation
and discussion at WFA; Presentation at UCLA, Conference on the Interaction
Between Bond Markets and the Macro-economy; Presentation at Duke UNC Asset
Pricing Conference
Paolo Pasquariello, Presentations at AFA annual
meetings (two papers); presentation at EFA annual meeting; presentation
at AEA annual meetings; discussion at ASSA-SGE annual meetings;
presentation at MTS Conference on Fixed Income Markets
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Presentations at
FMA annual meetings
Amit Seru (PhD student), Presentations at AFA annual
meetings (two papers)
Tyler Shumway, Presentation at
WFA annual meetings
Clemens Sialm, Discussion at AFA annual meetings
Noah Stoffman
(PhD student), Presentation at WFA annual meetings
Kathy Yuan, Presentation at
WFA annual meetings; presentation at NBER Market Microstructure Meeting;
Presentation at Duke/UNC Asset Pricing Conference
Lu Zhang, Presentation and session chair at AFA annual
meetings; presentation at UBC PH&N Finance Conference; discussion at
Duke/UNC Asset Pricing Conference; discussion at NBER Asset Pricing
Meeting
2006
Sreedhar Bharath, Presentations at AFA annual meetings;
presentation at NBER Corporate Finance group meetings
Sugato Bhattacharyya, Discussion at WFA annual meetings
Amy Dittmar, Presentation at Duke/UNC Corporate Finance
Conference, session chair at AFA annual meetings, discussant at WFA annual
meetings
Ryan Israelson (PhD Student), Presentation at AREUEA
annual meetings
Haitao Li, Presentation at AFA annual meetings
Adair Morse (PhD student), Presentations at AFA annual
meetings, NBER Summer Institute and Duke/UNC Corporate Finance Conference
Paolo Pasquariello, Presentation at AFA annual meetings
annual meetings; presentation at NBER Corporate Finance group meetings;
presentation at NBER Market Microstructure group meetings
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Presentations at WFA and EFA
annual meetings, discussions at NBER Asset Pricing Summer Institute and
EFA annual meetings
Uday Rajan, Presentation at WFA annual meetings and
NBER Microstructure meetings, discussant at WFA meetings
Amit Seru (PhD student), Presentations at AFA annual
meetings, WFA annual meetings, EFA annual meetings (two papers), program
committee EFA annual meetings
Tyler Shumway, Presentation at AFA annual meetings
Clemens Sialm, Presentations at AFA, WFA, Utah Winter
Finance Conference, EFA, NBER Summer Institute, NBER Conference on Public
Policy and Retirement Behavior and NBER Universities Research Conference
on Behavioral Responses to Taxation; discussion at AEA annual meetings,
EFA and NBER Financial Reporting and Taxation Conference; session chair
at EFA annual meetings
Guojun Wu, Presentations at AFA annual meetings and
NBER Corporate Finance group meetings
Kathy Yuan, Discussion at 12th Mitsui Life Symposium
on Global Financial Markets
Lu Zhang, Presentation at AFA annual meetings, Utah
Winter Finance Conference and Asset Pricing Workshop at NBER Summer Institute;
discussion at WFA annual meetings
2005
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H. Nejat Seyhun |
Sreedhar Bharath, Presentation at AFA annual meetings
Anusha Chari, Presentations at WFA annual meetings,
NBER IFM meetings, NBER productivity meetings and 9th Mitsui Life Symposium
on Global Financial Markets; discussant at NBER IFM Meeting
Amy Dittmar, Presentation at NBER Summer Institute
Robert Dittmar, Presentation at Utah Winter finance
meetings; discussant at Duke/UNC Asset Pricing Conference and WFA annual
meetings
Radhakrishnan Gopalan (PhD student),
Presentation at WFA annual meetings
Haitao Li, Presentation at WFA annual meetings
Amrita Nain (PhD student), Presentation at AFA annual
meetings
Paige Ouimet (PhD student), Presentations at EFA and
WFA annual meetings and NBER Summer Institute
Paolo Pasquariello, Presentation at AFA annual meetings
and EFA annual meetings, 2005
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Presentations at WFA annual meetings
Uday Rajan, Presentation at Utah Winter Finance Conference
Clemens Sialm, Presentations at AFA and EFA annual meetings,
discussions at EFA annual meetings and 11th Mitsui Life Symposium on Global
Financial Markets
Lu Zhang, Presentations at AFA, EFA and Utah Winter
Finance Conference annual meetings; discussions at AFA and WFA annual
meetings
Lu Zheng, Presentations at AFA and EFA annual meetings,
discussion at 11th Mitsui Life Symposium on Global Financial Markets
2004
Anusha Chari, Presentations at AFA, EFA and NBER IFM
meetings; discussant at NBER Conference on Capital Controls
Robert Dittmar, Presentation at AFA meetings; discussant
at WFA
Radhakrishnan Gopalan (PhD student), Presentation at
EFA annual meetings
Marcin Kacperczyk (PhD student), Presentation at EFA
annual meetings
Haitao Li, Presentations at WFA annual meetings; discussion
at AFA annual meetings
Amrita Nain (PhD student), Presentation at EFA annual
meetings
M.P. Narayanan, Presentation at WFA annual meetings
Paige Ouimet (PhD student), Presentations at EFA annual
meetings and NBER Summer Institute
Paolo Pasquariello, Presentations at AFA and EFA annual
meetings
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Presentation at WFA annual meetings
Clemens Sialm, Presentations at AFA and EFA annual meetings,
discussion at EFA annual meetings
Shalini Singh (PhD student), Presentation at AFA annual
meetings
Guojun Wu, Presentation at AFA annual meetings
Lu Zhang, Presentations and discussions at AEA annual
meetings, WFA annual meetings and NBER Fall Asset Pricing meeting; discussion
at AEA annual meetings
2003
Sugato Bhattacharyya, Discussion at WFA annual meetings
Anusha Chari, Presentations at WFA annual meetings,
AEA annual meetings and NBER IFM meetings; discussant at NBER EFG Summer
Institute and AEA
Amy Dittmar, Presentation at WFA annual meetings
Robert Dittmar, Presentations at NBER Asset Pricing,
WFA annual meetings and EFA annual meetings
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Gautam Kaul |
Gautam Kaul, Discussion at WFA annual meetings
Haitao Li, Presentation at EFA annual meetings
Paolo Pasquariello, Discussion at AFA annual meetings
Clemens Sialm, Presentation at AFA annual meetings
Zhi “Jay” Wang (PhD student), Presentation
at AFA annual meetings
Kathy Yuan, Presentation at AFA annual meetings
Lu Zhang, Presentations at WFA and AFA annual meetings
Lu Zheng, Presentation at AFA annual meetings
2002
Sreedhar Bharath, Presentations at WFA and EFA annual
meetings
Anusha Chari, Presentation at AFA annual meetings, discussant
at NBER CF meeting
Robert Dittmar, Presentation at WFA annual meetings
and Utah Winter Finance meeting
Gautam Kaul, Discussion at WFA annual meetings
Haitao Li, Presentations at AFA, WFA and EFA annual
meetings
Tyler Shumway, Presentation at WFA annual meetings
Kathy Yuan, Presentation at Utah Winter Finance Conference
Lu Zhang, Discussion at WFA annual meetings
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Editorships
and Associate Editorship
Sugato Bhattacharya, Co-Editor, Finance Research
Letters
Dennis Capozza, Editor, Journal of Financial Abstracts:
Real Estate, through present; guest editor, Real Estate Economics,
Spring 2003; Special Issue Editor, “REITs and Real Estate,”
spring 2005; Special Issue Editor, “New Horizons in REIT Research”;
Editorial Board, Journal of Forensic Economics, through 2003;
Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of
Housing Economics, Journal of Housing Research, Journal
of the Asian Real Estate Society and Journal of Real Estate Research,
through present
Gautam Kaul, Associate Editor, Journal of Financial
Markets, through present
E. Han Kim, Associate Editor, Financial Review,
through 2003; Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting,
through present; Journal of Finance, 1979-1983 and 1988-1992;
Editorial Review board, Journal of Business Research, through
present; International Review of Economics and Finance, through
present; Editorial Advisory board, Journal of Asian Business,
through present; Research in Financial Economics, 2005 through
present
H. Nejat Seyhun, Editorial board member, ISE Review
and Finance Letters
Anjan Thakor, Managing Editor, Journal of Financial
Intermediation, 2002 and 2003
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Association Committees
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Dennis Capozza |
Dennis Capozza, President, American Real Estate and
Urban Economics Association, 2005;
First Vice-President, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association,
2004;
Second Vice President and program chair, 2004 national meetings of the
American
Real Estate and Urban Economics Association; Member, Board of Directors,
American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, 2001 through present;
Member, Advisory Board, Financial Economics Network, through present
Amy Dittmar, AFA Nominating Committee, 2006
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Program Committees
Anusha Chari, Program committee, WFA 2005
Sreedhar Bharath, Program
committe, EFA 2007, 2008; program committe, FMA 2007, 2008
Amy Dittmar, Program committee, WFA 2007-2008; program committee, AFA 2006; program committee, FMA 2003, 2004,
and 2007
Robert Dittmar, Program committee, WFA 2007; program
committee, EFA 2006; program committee, FMA 2002 and 2003
Gautam Kaul, Program committee, WFA 1994-2007
M.P. Narayanan, Program committee, EFA 2006; program
committee, FMA 2002-2006; session chair/organizer, FMA 2002-2006
Uday Rajan, Program committee, WFA 2002; session chair,
European Econometric Society meeting, 2003
Tyler Shumway, Program committee, EFA 2003 and 2004
Clemens Sialm, Program committee and track chair, EFA
2006; program committee, FMA 2005 and 2006
Lu Zhang, Program committee, WFA and AFA 2007
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Awards and Grants
Sreedhar Bharath, Recipient, UK Q Group grant for “Does
Industry wide Distress Affect Defaulted Firms? Evidence from Creditor
Recoveries,” (with Viral Acharya and Anand Srinivasan)
Sreedhar Bharath, Winner, best paper in Financial Institutions
and Markets (sponsored by Fannie Mae), 2004 FMA Annual Meetings for “So
What do I get: A bank’s view of lending relationships?” (with
Sandeep Dahiya, Anthony Saunders and Anand Srinivasan)
Sreedhar Bharath, Winner, Board of Banque de France
grant for “Understanding credit spreads: the role of systematic
variation in expected loss and liquidity,” (with Viral Acharya and
Yakov Amihud)
Sreedhar Bharath, Winner,
best paper in Corporate Finance (sponsored by LECG) award at the 2007
EFA Annual Meetings
Dennis Capozza, 2005 E.S. Mills Award for Best Paper
in Real Estate Economics
Anusha Chari, Nominated for Smith Breeden Prize, 2004,
for “Risk Sharing and Asset Prices: Evidence from a Natural Experiment,”
Journal of Finance, June 2004, Vol. 59, No. 3, pp. 1295-1324
(with Peter Blair Henry)
Anusha Chari, Grant from Center for International Business
Education: $30,000, 2003-2005
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Amy Dittmar
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Amy Dittmar, Lead article, “Why Do Firms Issue
Equity?” 2007, Journal of Finance, forthcoming February,
2007, (with Anjan Thakor)
Amy Dittmar, “Why do Firms Repurchase Stock?”
2000, Journal of Business 73, 331 – 355, Reprinted in Recent
Developments in Corporate Finance, 2005, Edward Elgar Publishers,
ed. Jay Ritter
Amy Dittmar, LECG Award
for Best Paper in Corporate Finance at EFA 2007
Robert Dittmar, Nominated for Smith-Breeden Prize, 2005,
for best paper in the Journal of Finance in 2005, for “Consumption,
Dividends, and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns,” Journal
of Finance, 60, 1639–1672, (with Ravi Bansal and Christian
Lundblad)
Ryan Israelson (PhD Student), Best Paper Award, Utah
Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters, 2002 and 2006
Gautam Kaul, Senior Faculty Research Award, Ross School
of Business, 2003
E. Han Kim, Nominated for Brattle Prize, 2005, for “To
Steal or Not to Steal: Firm Attributes, Legal Environment, and Valuation,”
Journal of Finance, Vol. 60, No. 3, June, 2005, pp. 1461-1493
E. Han Kim, Maekyung-KAEA Economist Award, 2006
E. Han Kim, CORE Award, Ross School of Business, 2004
Paolo Pasquariello, Q Group Research Award, 2005-2006,
for “Informed and Strategic Order Flow in Bond and Stock Markets,”
(with Clara Vega)
Paolo Pasquariello, Winner, 2002 Lehman Brothers Fellowship
Competition, for “Imperfect Competition, Information Heterogeneity,
and Financial Contagion”
Paolo Pasquariello, Outstanding Paper Award in International
Finance for paper presented at the 2002 Midwest Finance Association (MFA)
annual meetings in Chicago, “Central Bank Intervention and the Intraday
Process of Price Formation in Currency Markets”
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Fellow, Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (2004-2006)
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, FDIC grants, $10,000 for paper
“Interest Rate Derivatives at Commercial Banks: Theory and Evidence,”
$10,000 for paper “The Effect of Banking Crisis on Bank-Dependent
Borrowers”
Amiyatosh Purnanandam, Winner, 2003 Lehman Brothers
Fellowship Competition, for “Financial Distress and Corporate Risk
Management: Theory and Evidence”
Uday Rajan, GSAM Quant Prize for best paper in Review
of Finance, 2005, for “Rationing in IPOs,” (with C. Parlour)
Uday Rajan, Nominated for Smith Breeden Prize for best
paper not in corporate finance in the Journal of Finance, 2005,
“Equilibrium in a Dynamic Limit Order Market,” (with R. Goettler
and C. Parlour)
Uday Rajan, Lead article, “Equilibrium in a Dynamic
Limit Order Market,” Journal of Finance 60(5): 2149-2192
(with R. Goettler and C. Parlour)
Uday Rajan, NYSE Award for best paper on equity trading,
Western Finance Association Meetings, 2004, “Equilibrium in a Dynamic
Limit Order Market,” (with R. Goettler and C.
Parlour)
Amit Seru (PhD student), Lead article, “Fund Manager
Use of Public Information: New Evidence on Managerial Skills,” Journal
of Finance, April, 2007 (with Marcin Kacperczyk)
Amit Seru (PhD student), $13,000 grant on emerging market
research from the Center for International Business Education
Tyler Shumway, First place, Smith Breeden Prize, 2005,
from American Finance Association and Journal of Finance for “Do
Behavioral Biases Affect Prices?” (with Joshua Coval)
Tyler Shumway, Lead article, “Do Behavioral Biases
Affect Prices?” (with Joshua Coval), 2005, 60 (1) 1-34
Clemens Sialm, Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau
of Economic Research, Public Economics Group
Clemens Sialm, Nominated for Smith Breeden Prize, 2005,
for “On the Industry Concentration for Actively Managed Equity Mutual
Funds”
Clemens Sialm, BSI-Gamma Foundation Research Award,
2005, for "Portfolio Concentration and the Performance of Individual
Investors" (with Zoran Ivkovich and Scott Weisbenner)
Clemens Sialm, Institute for Quantitative Investment
Research Award, 2004, for "Unobserved Actions of Equity Mutual funds,"
(with Marcin Kacperczyk and Lu Zheng)
Clemens Sialm, Chicago Quantitative Alliance Research
Award, 2004, for "Portfolio Concentration and the Performance of
Individual Investors," (with Zoran Ivkovich and Scott Weisbenner)
Anjan Thakor, Nominating Committee, Nobel Prize in Economics,
2002 and 2003
Anjan Thakor, Ross School of Business Finance Faculty
Award “In Appreciation of Your Leadership in Shaping and Revitalizing
the Finance Group as Chairman, 2000-2003,” April 2003
Guojun Wu, First place paper, 2004 China International
Conference in Finance (Shanghai), for “Stock Market Manipulations,”
(with Rajesh Aggarwal)
Guojun Wu, Grant from Institute for Quantitative Investment
Research (INQUIRE), Paris, France, 2002-2003
Guojun Wu, Grant from the Center for International Business
Education, 2002-2004
Kathy Yuan, Nominated for Smith Breeden Prize, 2005,
for “Asymmetric Price Movement and the Borrowing Constraint: A REE
Model of Crises, Contagion, and Confusion”
Lu Zhang, First place, Smith Breeden Prize, 2005, from
American Finance Association and Journal of Finance for “The
Value Premium”
Lu Zhang, Runner-up, Best Paper Award, 2005 Utah Winter
Finance Conference, for “Anomalies”
Lu Zhang, Runner-up, Barclay Global Investors Award
for Best Conference Paper, 2005 European Finance Association Meetings,
for “Investment-based Underperformance Following Seasoned Equity
Offerings,” (with Evgeny Lyandres and Le Sun)
Lu Zhang, Faculty Research Fellow, National Bureau of
Economic Research, Asset Pricing Group
Lu Zhang, Lead article, “Equilibrium Cross Section
of Returns,” August 2003, Journal of Political Economy,
111 (4), 693-732, (with Joao F. Gomes and Leonid Kogan)
Lu Zheng, Nominated for Smith Breeden Prize, 2005, for
“On the Industry Concentration for Actively Managed Equity Mutual
Funds”
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